Michelle Yeoh Through the Years: From ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ to ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and Beyond
usmagazine.comFrom Crazy Rich Asians to an Oscar nomination! Michelle Yeoh started off her acting career in Hong Kong with action and martial arts films and has since become a critically acclaimed actress.The Witcher: Blood Origin star was born in August 1962 in Ipoh, Perak.
At a young age, Yeoh took an interest in ballet and later went on to study at the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Dance in London where she took her first acting class.“I found I got completely tongue-tied,” the Malaysia native told Deadline in a March 2023 interview. “It was not a problem when I had to dance; that was my world.
But, I was properly terrified of getting up on a stage where I had to speak. To memorize other people’s lines and then repeat them.
I never imagined myself ever wanting to be an actress.”Yeoh first started appearing and performing her own stunts in Hong Kong films such as 1985’s Yes, Madam and 1992’s Police Story 3: Supercop.
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